Scan 58
The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
3Born in Germany in 1685, one of the world's foremost composers and greatest musicians, came from a long line of musical ancestors. As an organist Bach has probably never had an equal, and his organ compositions are said to be "unsurpassed and unsurpassable." He was also a fine performer on the violin and other stringed instruments, an able pianist and a most voluminous composer.
5Sebastian Bach has been called, "the great source and fountain-head from which well-nigh all that is best and most enduring in modern music has been derived."
7This bust was constructed from measurements of his skull and is considered authoritative.
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